timer docklets

[guijacquemet]

I am working in a scientific lab where I am doing a lot of short experiment, therefore I have a lot of short break. One thing I would love to have in docky is a timer docklet wiitch will send a message in the notification area when the time is gone.
I am currently using the gnome timer applet which do perfectly the job but its design is far to be optimal.
This kind of plugin will probably look awesome with a docky interface (and very useful).

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I also think this would be highly useful and we could probably make it look really cool.

Robert?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Added in rev 1423.

[guijacquemet (guijacquemet)]

This timer is really good and look awesome, I have just to critics
- it is a bit difficult to set up a long time
- It could be very nice to have a notification when the time is gone

But that a great job , Thank you very much for that !!

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

a) hold CTRL or SHIFT while scrolling to set the hour/mins

b) it already does this, it uses the standard Docky notification (which dumps a line to the console log and does a system libnotify notification)

[guijacquemet (guijacquemet)]

Wouaum that s just awesome then

[KOO Studios (koo-studios)]

I have just a couple ideas and problems:

Firstly, I don't have a mouse capable of scrolling and admittedly I know that heaps of people have wheel mouses but I don't and therefore couldn't change the time. Would it be possible to add a small dialog box or something to change the time?

Second, the labels are a great idea but it would be great if we can customise them even further, I normally have 2 timers for different things and it would be great if you could have a different colour or something for each one so that I can glance and see which ones going when.

Thanks!

[Yuriy Voziy (yuretsz)]

Since the docky is hiding whent it's not active, can it prevent docky from hiding when there is a timer notification?
Or it can add a notification to the notification menu.
Or add an option "Run command when timer stops"

b) it already does this, it uses the standard Docky notification (which dumps a line to the console log and does a system libnotify notification)

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Please open a NEW bug and request that we have timers show an on-dock notification when the dock is hidden. THIS bug is fixed.